John L. Cunningham wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > And /dev/sda would be right for Lenny. In Lenny's 2.6.26 kernel all > > device names work under the scsi naming. > > > > But then you say /dev/hda and the hda names are the old kernel names. > > This leads me to believe that you are booting an older kernel. The > > previous Etch kernel used hd names. I think that is part of your > > problem. > > That's not how it works for me. I'm running Lenny with the 2.6.26 kernel > and it uses the old names. In fact, the reason why I haven't upgraded > yet is because the new names will foobar my backup scripts. Did I get that wrong? I did. Sorry. Thanks for the correction. I even looked on a Lenny machine before posting that and it was using 2.6.26 with /dev/sd* naming. But looking on a different Lenny machine I do see /dev/hd* naming. (Why is one of my Lenny machines different from the rest? Because it is a T43 and has a IDE-SATA bridge chip and presents the IDE hard drive as a SATA drive. Sorry for the confusion.) In any case I think using a debian-installer boot cdrom disk as a rescue image would be best. Then re-install grub again. If the system can be booted then I would use grub to repair the mbr. Bob
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